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Radioactive IT Review: Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Radioactive IT Review: Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath | Review: Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath |
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| by Mike Bantick | ||||||||||||||||
| Sunday, 03 August 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
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It is a long standing statement that keyboard and mouse are the best ways to play an RTS game, but EA have been the vanguard of bringing RTS to the console crowd, first with Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth II and in the past year with the latest C&C. And now the PC expansion pack comes to Xbox 360, only slightly modified from the original. The shiny domed Kane is [again] not dead! And players can now live out his vengeance on both GDI (Global Defence Initiative) and the alien Scrin. The 13 chapter single player campaign will let new players come to grips with the console based control system, and at the same time gently expose the complexities and combinations that can be wielded during the god style game. The camera is particularly tight on the action, and the aforementioned control mechanism, involving a series of radial contextual selection wheels can feel cumbersome compared to PC based equivalent games. It is just as well the campaign does not really heat up challenge wise until the introduction of the Scrin in the latter stages. Other single player options include the Skirmish mode and (replacing the Risk style global conquest mode of the PC version) a series of battles known as Kane's Challenge. In Kane's Challenge, there are up to 90 deathmatch style games pitting the nine different factions within the game (GDI, Brotherhood of Nod, Scrin, Steel Talons, ZOCOM, , Black Hand, Marked of Kane, Reaper-17 and Traveler-59) against each other. Multiplayer consists of five different types of gameplay, Versus, Siege (an impassible section of map divides the contestants for a time), Capture and Hold, Capture the Flag and King of the Hill. Many veterans will jump straight to multiplayer, hoping that the opposition is using the same controller as them. Visually, C&C3:KW is a satisfying blend of animated scenes, explosions and little men running around the screen, though zooming does not seem to go far enough, either way. Other than that, this is classic C&C action. A reasonably fast paced experience with the usual level of cut scene dramatics, and good mix of military machinery to through at your enemy. |
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